Early Europe and Colonial Americas

Question 1

Catacomb of Priscilla

Answer 1

Rome, Italy
Late Antique Europe
200-400 CE
Excavated tufa and fresco

Question 2

Santa Sabina

Answer 2

Rome, Italy
Late Antique Europe
422-432 CE
Brick and Stone, wooden roof

Question 3

Rebecca and Elizer at the Well

Jacob Wrestling the Angel

Answer 3

From the Vienna Genesis
Early Byzantine Europe
600 CE
Illuminated Manuscript
Tempera, Gold, Silver, Purple vellum

Question 4

San Vitale

Answer 4

Ravenna, Italy
Early Byzantine Europe
526-547 CE
Brick, marble,and stone veneer, mosaic

Question 5

Hagia Sophia

Answer 5

Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey)
Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus
532-537 CE
Brick and ceramic elements with stone and mosaic veneer

Question 6

Merovingian Looped Fibulae

Answer 6

Early Medieval Europe
650 CE
Silver gilt worked in filigree, inlays of garnets and other stones

Question 7

Theotokos between St. Theodore and St. George

Answer 7

Early Byzantine Europe
600-700 CE
Encaustic (Wax) on wood

Question 8

Lindisfarne Gospels

• St. Matthew Carpet Page
• St. Luke incipit page
• St Luke portrait page

Answer 8

Hiberno-Saxon
Early Medieval Europe
700 CE
Illuminated Manuscript
(Ink, pigment, gold on vellum)

Question 9

Great Mosque

Answer 9

Umayyad
Cordoba, Spain
785-786 CE
Stone Masonry

Question 10

Pyxis of al-Mughira

Answer 10

Umayyad
986 CE
Carved ivory